Nov. 7th, 2006

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While searching Worldcat for a book with images of French peasents from the late 1500's, I ran across these interesting finds which aren't at all relevant to the search, but are really cool.

Look, period fart jokes!
Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology by by Jeff Persels (Editor), Russell Ganim (Editor) 

Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Jane L. Carroll (Editor), Alison G. Stewart (Editor)

An interesting article on JSTOR, which I don't have access to anymore (waaah!)
Paper Festivals and Popular Entertainment the Kermis Woodcuts of Sebald Beham in Reformation Nuremberg by Alison Stewart  


mmcnealy: (Default)
For my Swedish reading friends....

Can you tell me if text describing the garments re-created at the following link mention if they are based on actual extant garments or are a best guess based on the art work?
http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drakter/1520lk/index.htm

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